How many of you are self censoring online?

[RudsyFarmer]

The amount of times I go to write something online and stop, delete, forget the whole thing is just crazy now. Most of my posts are as vanilla as I’m able and yet I still manage to offend someone.

I just wonder if I’m among the many or the minority? Is anyone just writing whatever they fancy and to hell with it or are others playing one step forward, two steps back with their posting second guessing what’s going to cause a fire storm.

It depends where I'm posting.

On a site as big as MN you're always going to either offend someone or set off some miserable curmudgeon.

I don't let it bother me. You're entitled to your opinion.

I'm going through a tricky time right now and could really do with some opinions from outsiders but know from experience everyone jumps to the extreme every time. I've written it out then deleted every time as I'm hurting and I don't need a bunch of strangers in the internet to make that worse .

I think to give a good opinion I’d need to know what you’re censoring. Are you sulking that you need to stop yourself from saying you never see a white face on your street and you’re fed up of all these job stealing immigrants (actual comment I heard in real life recently?)

Or do you feel you need to hide that actually you think Tom Hardy isn’t that handsome and you like crunchy peanut butter?

Yes when posting anything against my open social media profiles.

I'm not ready for the impact to my role

I don't know if you'd call it self-censoring but I always run the 'would I say this to their face' rule over anything I post online. Always have.

I work on the basis that if I they read it then I would not want to be embarrassed.

There is a slight difference when I post for support with kids/teens.

But outside of that, this is me.
But I have always been like that. I don't really understand the mentality of hiding behind the keyboard.

I tend to post on more innocuous subjects. I've just pulled back from saying what I thought on another thread because I don't have time to then police the rest of the thread when people start shouting at me. I prefer to be one-and-done when it comes to posting on here.

I work in social care so do have to be careful in case it comes back to me.

Not so much on MN as name change regularly. I barely post on FB as unsure I have the settings correct. I’m on it to see news from family who are in different countries.